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Direct2Drive sale, 50 percent off 2K games
Digital content distribution service Direct2Drive is offering a 50 percent off sale for a wide selection of 2K Games titles. Some games included are BioShock, Civilization IV, and Sid Meier’s Pirates. All of the games are selling for extremely cheap, so people itching for a bargain should definitely check these deals out. The sale ends on the 31st, so act fast.
via Joystiq
Sid Meier’s Pirates Game!–Repetitious Fun For All
It was one of my favorite original Xbox games, and now, thanks to the joy that is Xbox Live, one of my favorite Xbox 360 games. It’s Sid Meier’s Pirates, and it’s a whole load of easy, casual fun.
It’s kind of hard to say that a console title can be casual too–but Sid Meier’s Pirates definitely qualifies. You play as a young man who watched his family be sold into slavery along with all their assets following the disastrous wreckage of its merchant fleet. As you grow into young adulthood, the memory of this injustice sears into your very soul and you set out to recover your family and their fortune. Not to mention get revenge on the man responsible for it all, the evil Marquis.
There are a host of different ways to play Sid Meier’s Pirates–you can follow the main quest, and go hunting down the Marquis via a series of hints from mysterious strangers in taverns. You can try to find your lost family. You can turn bounty hunter and go after the notorious top ten pirates cruising the Caribbean, including legends like Jack Rackham, Captain Kidd and Edward “Blackbeard” Teach himself (bonus kudos to Sid Meyer and staff for INCLUDING the lengths of burning slowmatch that Teach would plait in his beard to give himself a glowing, smoke-shrouded appearance). Or you can just run amok and turn pirate yourself, ransacking cargo vessels and treasure ships all along the Spanish main. And if you can get an island’s governor to give you a letter of marque, it’s even technically legal! It’s true–it’s called “privateering”, and as long as you go after the shipping of countries that the country that issued you the letter of marque is at war with, you can’t be tried as a pirate.
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